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About Our Team
At TRAC we believe that our success is a direct result of our dedicated team of experts. Our employees' knowledge spans every aspect of regulatory affairs and our dedicated Business and Office Managers allow us to provide you with the best service possible.
We consider our team to be the best in the business and pride ourselves on the diverse, friendly individuals who form it.
To find out more about TRAC’s key employees, please click on the picture tiles to the left.
To read short biographies for all the TRAC team please click here.
Matthew Walker
Senior Regulatory Affairs Executive
| Q | What makes you happy? |
| A | Hot summer days by the sea, spending time with friends and family, eating good food, surfing, mountain biking, being in a beer garden on a summer's evening with a pint of ale. |
| Q | What has been the best moment in your career? |
| A | Feeling confident for the first time in the work that I'm doing. |
| Q | What's your favourite holiday destination? |
| A | New York City. |
| Q | What has been your proudest moment? |
| A | Having my parents come and watch me accept my degree certificate when I graduated university. |
| Q | What's the greatest invention ever? |
| A | Sky+ |
Sarah Trethowan
Company Director
| Q | What has been your proudest moment? |
| A | Being brave enough to give up good jobs and return to Cornwall and then making a success of our business venture TRAC. |
| Q | What makes you happy? |
| A | Chocolate and sunshine. |
| Q | What is your favourite quotation? |
| A | 'Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.' W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993) |
| Q | What's the best thing about living in Cornwall? |
| A | Being close to the sea. |
| Q | What do you love about your job? |
| A | Being the boss! |
Jonathan Trethowan
Company Director
| Q | What was your first full time job? |
| A | Protein Biochemist with GlaxoSmithKline. |
| Q | What could you not live without? |
| A | Family and friends. |
| Q | What do you love about your job? |
| A | Growing TRAC and working on new projects. |
| Q | What were you favourite and least favourite subjects in school? |
| A | Favourite = Biology, Least = History. |
| Q | What is your best quality? |
| A | Diplomacy. |
Lisa Pascoe
Regulatory Affairs Executive
| Q | What could you not live without? |
| A | Onion rings, white wine and mascara. |
| Q | What's the best thing about living in Cornwall? |
| A | The lifestyle, the beaches, the people and the pubs. |
| Q | What do you love about your job? |
| A | The variety, every day is different and the fact that its science based - I get to use my degree in Cornwall. |
| Q | What was your first full time job? |
| A | Credit Analyst. |
| Q | What's the greatest invention ever? |
| A | The digital camera. |
Graham Donaldson
Senior Regulatory Affairs Executive
| Q | What has been the best moment in your career? |
| A | Winning the 'Catalyst for Business Growth' Award from Unlocking Cornish Potential/Combined Universities in Cornwall in 2006. |
| Q | What could you not live without? |
| A | A sense of humour. |
| Q | What is your favourite quotation? |
| A | 'When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity' John F. Kennedy |
| Q | What do you love about your job? |
| A | Being part of a successful Cornish business. |
| Q | What has been your proudest moment? |
| A | Gaining my masters in Environmental Science (at the time though I was more relieved than proud!) |
Sophie Hobson
Readability Testing Manager /
Senior Regulatory Affairs Executive
| Q | If you could invite any two people for dinner, who would they be and why would you invite them? |
| A | It would have to be David Bowie and Christopher Walken just because I think they are great. |
| Q | What was your first full time job? |
| A | Bar maid. |
| Q | What do you love about your job? |
| A | I love the fact that I work for a company that makes me feel valued and appreciated. |
| Q | If you could be a superhero what powers would you like to possess? |
| A | Time travel. |
| Q | What makes you happy? |
| A | Sunshine. |
Vicki Kent
Office Manager
| Q | Describe yourself in three adjectives: |
| A | Caring, dedicated and stubborn |
| Q | What's the best thing about living in Cornwall? |
| A | Being so close to the sea, 'Iced Hedgehogs' and Cream Teas |
| Q | What has been your proudest moment? |
| A | Having my two kids, Peran and Emmylou |
| Q | What do you love about your job? |
| A | Finding a place to work where I am happy and want to be and being around colleagues who feel the same. Not constantly hearing everyone moaning about each other or how they hate their job etc. |
| Q | What's the greatest invention ever? |
| A | Don't know but the worst was email! |
Natalie Grogan
Marketing Manager
| Q | What's your number 1 ambition? |
| A | To be the best I can be. |
| Q | If you could invite any two people for dinner, who would they be and why would you invite them? |
| A | Johnny Vegas and Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighter - laughter and good music, a perfect dinner date! |
| Q | What do you love about your job? |
| A | That I can really make a difference. |
| Q | What is your favourite quotation? |
| A | "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around every once in a while, you might just miss it!" Ferris Buellers Day Off, 1986 |
| Q | What could you not live without? |
| A | My beautiful twin - she keeps me in check! |
Claire Pomeroy
Senior Regulatory Affairs Executive
| Q | If you could be a superhero what powers would you like to possess? |
| A | The power to heal. |
| Q | If you could invite any two people for dinner, who would they be and why would you invite them? |
| A | Stephen Fry - he is so knowledgeable about everything and very funny I'm not sure who else as I think that Mr Fry would be enough entertainment for one evening... maybe Jack Johnson could come along for some background music! |
| Q | What do you love about your job? |
| A | Having responsibilities and daily mental challenges. |
| Q | What could you not live without? |
| A | Summertime! |
| Q | What has been the best moment in your career? |
| A | Being recognised by TRAC for promotion. Also being given responsibility by one of our clients to be the project leader for several projects. |
Liz Vincent
Regulatory Affairs Manager
| Q | What was your first full time job? |
| A | I worked on the check-out tills in a small supermarket in South Africa called ‘OK Bazaars’ – equivalent to Somerfield before starting my Radiography training. It was back in the days when it was still all push button & ‘kerching!’ |
| Q | What makes you happy? |
| A | Sunshine, good food, good wine & good company |
| Q | What has been the worst moment in your career? |
| A | There’s been a few, but probably the worst was the day I sent an email to a colleague saying that it would be good to put a certain client/project “to bed once and for all” and accidentally hit ‘Reply to All’!! Unfortunately I had a meeting with the client on the same day … and yes, they’d read the email! |
| Q | What could you not live without? |
| A | Cheese & warmth |
| Q | If you could be a superhero what powers would you like to possess? |
| A | The power to see into the future. |
Mike May
Regulatory Affairs Executive
| Q | What has been the worst moment in your career? |
| A | Causing injury to another requiring AE |
| Q | What's your favourite holiday destination? |
| A | Rio de Janeiro |
| Q | What makes you happy? |
| A | Talking to my nephew or a very tasty bowl of ice cream. |
| Q | What do you love about your job? |
| A | Being friends with my colleagues. |
| Q | What is your best quality? |
| A | Good listener. |